Although active listening is considered an important communication skill in a variety of
occupational and therapeutic fields, few experiments compare dyadic partners' perceptions of …

Instructor listening skill is an understudied area in instructional communication research. This
study looks at teachers’ active empathic listening behavior association with student incivility…

This study examines the link between communication and self-verification in marriage. A
theoretical model that explains the relationships among disconfirming communication, …

… All correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Harry Weger, Jr,
Nicholson School of Communication, University of Central Florida, PO Box 161344, Orlando, FL …

This study examined the effects of food servers' sex, the use of generalized compliments, and
the size of the dining party on tipping behavior in restaurants. Four food servers (2 males, 2 …

Perhaps no communication skill is identified as regularly as active listening in training programs
across a variety of disciplines and activities. Yet little empirical research has examined …

This essay examines argumentation practices as they occur in politically oriented chat rooms
to explore deliberation at a distance in the public sphere. There is a discrepancy between …

<p>This study examines argument sequences that couples use in conversations about
relational problems and investigates the associations between argument sequences and control …

Whereas the investigation of argument in public discourse has long held prominent status in
the field of communication, research on argument in interpersonal settings has only recently …

… Harry Weger: I want to first express my deepest appreciation to my wife who managed to
stay awake through almost all of my blathering on about classical Greek rhetoric, Obama's …